And so it ends not with a bang, but a whimper

And late last night, 42 years after Neil Armstrong first stepped on another world and 49 years after John Glenn became the first American to enter orbital space (1), our manned space program came to an end with the landing of the shuttle Atlantis.

I heard a radio review with Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) yesterday, in which he was asked for his take on the last Shuttle mission. He stated that he felt that the government did not want America to lead or be exceptional in any way, and that motivated their gutting of NASA. I’d said for some time now that NASA had to go because Obama wanted to let the rest of the world catch up. Not fair for America to be first all the time, you know.

I hope that private industry is allowed to fill the void, and that the government doesn’t immediately cripple private industry with overarching regulation.

And I hope that history remembers Obama VERY unkindly for being the President who hamstrung NASA.